Dueling question

L5R CCG Rules board, 10 April 2010

A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.

A player, 10 April 2010

I was looking at the comprehensive rules for CE and came across a question. During the focus round, could you give an example of an effect used "instead of" focusing? I am unsure as to what may be done at that time.

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 10 April 2010

I was looking at the comprehensive rules for CE and came across a question. During the focus round, could you give an example of an effect used "instead of" focusing? I am unsure as to what may be done at that time.

There are currently none legal in Celestial Edition, but the rule was included because past cards have had such effects and future cards may do so again. Such past cards include Smoke and Mirrors, Jitte, and Wrath of the Emperor, among others.